22 posts from: Adrian Hamza
Is there a way to configure one send port to send a message to a document library based on a parameter?
(Indexed 2007-03-07):
This question comes up quite often that it deserves its own post. Is there a way to configure one send port to send a message to a variable destination based on a parameter? For instance when using WSS adapter, can you send a message to a different document library based on the message that's being processed?The answer is yes, it's possible to do this in two ways:using dynamic send ports, the destination URI and the configuration of the send port can be set programatically in the orchestration f...(truncated)...
%Filename% macro is not replaced with the disk filename
(Indexed 2006-06-30):
I've seen this issue showing a couple of times on the BizTalk Newsgroups so I thought it's worth posting about this on my blog. The user expectation, which is probably correct from usability point of view, is that the %Filename% macro is replaced with the name of the original file no matter if that file was received from the disk through FILE adapter or from a document library through SharePoint adapter. This doesn't happen like that since the WSS adapter send ports will resolve the %Filename% m...(truncated)...
WSS Adapter handling of InfoPath forms with attachments
(Indexed 2006-06-20):
InfoPath supports forms with file attachments by encoding the attachement as base64 and including the following PI at the top of the XML document to indicate that a file has been attached to the document. WSS adapter works with InfoPath forms with attachements by making sure that it does not add/remove/update any of the PIs that are related to file attachment. If the files are attached to the form in InfoPath then the PI should be there because InfoPath adds it. If the files are attached by your...(truncated)...
WSS v3 Beta 2 is out - try it with WSS adapter
(Indexed 2006-06-05):
Windows SharePoint Services V3 Beta 2 is out and you can download it here. WSS v3 does not install a policy file that redirects old SharePoint assembly requests to the new assemblies. For this reason, if you try to use WSS v3 Beta 2 with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will run into errors. In order to workaround this problem and take WSS v3 Beta 2 for a test drive together with BizTalk 2006 WSS adapter, you will need to write your own policy file or just update the web.config file of the WSS adap...(truncated)...
WSS Adapter webcasts/videos
(Indexed 2006-04-18):
BizTalk 2006 RTMd last month, and the BizTalk Betaplace has been closed for a few weeks now. Many people have asked me for access to the WSS Adapter videos that were shared on the betaplace and finally, here they are. The videos are shared on this SharePoint site: http://wssadapter.members.winisp.net/default.aspx, in the Shared Documents document library, WSS Adapter Webcasts folder.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included videos are subject to ...(truncated)...
Upgrading from BT'04 GotDotNet WSS Adapter 1.0 to BT'06 native WSS Adapter
(Indexed 2006-03-29):
I finally found some time and tried upgrading from BizTalk 2004 and GotDotNet WSS adapter to BizTalk 2006 and the native BT'06 adapter for Windows SharePoint Services. The idea was to start from a BizTalk 2004 installation with version 1.0 of Steve Resnick & Co. WSS Adapter (http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=0d1aa...(truncated)... , setup a simple messaging scenario using SharePoint, upgrade to BizTalk 2006, verify that messaging still works, upgrade to the native BizTalk 200...(truncated)...
BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd
(Indexed 2006-03-27):
BizTalk Server 2006 has RTM'd today ... best BizTalk ever, shipped on time and a very high quality server product. See the announcement here.http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/st...(truncated)... Of course, my favorite BT'06 features are are WSS Adapter, BAS and BAM ... because my colleagues and I worked on many of these features ... ;-)I've been working in BizTalk team for 4 years now, this is my second BizTalk release, and I really like the things that I do here. The product ...(truncated)...
Adding a row into a SharePoint List and adding an attachment to it
(Indexed 2006-03-20):
I recently got this email from a WSS Adapter user ... I saw your 4 last web casts, it helped me a lot to get a good idea about thee WSS adapter.I have a question, Can you help me please and tell me how to add a row into SharePoint list and add an attachment to it? Where can I get more help about WSS adapter other then interrupt you? ...Unfortunately, the support for lists is not that rich in this release of the adapter. You can send messages to lists (create list row) but you cannot receive mess...(truncated)...
Adding Browse UI to BT'06 WSS adapter
(Indexed 2006-03-15):
The WssAdapterBrowseUI.dll modifies the default WSS Adapter UI so that instead of typing the names and URLs of SharePoint document libraries, lists, or columns you will be presented with a list view/tree view from where you can select the appropriate SharePoint object. The friendly names/titles of SharePoint objects are being shown but the UI is filled with the appropriate value (document library relative URL, document library title, column title, etc). This component does not validate that valu...(truncated)...
Problem when configuring WSS 2003 with SP2 to run on top of .Net Framework 1.1 and then upgrading to .Net Framework 2.0
(Indexed 2006-03-11):
A few users have reported this configuration issue when trying to install and configure BizTalk 2006 with Windows SharePoint Services adapter. BizTalk 2006 native adapter for Windows SharePoint Services requires .Net Framework 2.0 but most of the users don't realize this until they try to configure the Windows SharePoint Services Adapter Web Service feature of BizTalk 2006. At that point, in many cases, Windows SharePoint Services has already been configured to run on top of .Net Framework 1.1 s...(truncated)...
BizTalk Server 2006 Beta2 is out - What's new in WSS Adapter?
(Indexed 2005-11-22):
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Beta2 is now available on Microsoft Beta Place. If you have not signed up already for BizTalk 2006 Beta program you can follow the instructions that I posted in this previous post in order to download the bits. If you have already signed up for BizTalk Beta 1 then you can just go to https://beta.microsoft.com, sign in with your account and download the latest BT 2006 beta. The setup/configuration is pretty much the same so you can follow the steps from my previous p...(truncated)...
Configuring Windows SharePoint Services on 64 bit machines/OS
(Indexed 2005-11-21):
WSS with SP2 can run in 32-bit emulation mode on a 64-bit machine/OS but there are a few manual steps that need to be done in order to get that working.Step 1 - First of all, set the IIS application pool to run as 32 bit. On 64 bit machines, SharePoint runs in 32-bit emulation mode. This means that you need to update IIS settings so that the IIS application pool processes run as 32 bit processes. One caveat here is that the setting that controls this applies to all application pool processes. Th...(truncated)...
New WSS Adapter videos are available on the Microsoft Beta site, BizTalk Server 2006 program
(Indexed 2005-11-14):
Hi folks,Sorry for the long delay since my last post, I just got back from a 3 weeks vacation. My parents visited US for the first time and I took some time off to show them how wonderful Puget Sound is. Originally, I am from Romania but I moved here 5 years ago and this was their first visit.When I got back from vacation I had the surprise to see that the new WSS Adapter demos that I recorded before going on vacation have been approved and posted online on the BizTalk Beta Place, so here they a...(truncated)...
Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 has been released
(Indexed 2005-10-04):
Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 has been released last week on September 27. You can download the SP2 here . You can download the full version of Windows SharePoint Services with SP2 integrated (slipstream) from here .From my perspective, most interesting features added by this service pack are: - Whidbey (.Net Framework 2.0) support: both side-by-side with .Net Framework 1.1 and also support for running against Whidbey - Support for 64 bit - WSS with SP2 can run in 32-bit em...(truncated)...
WSS Adapter webcast recording is now available on Microsoft Betaplace
(Indexed 2005-09-20):
I mentioned before that I'll be doing a webcast on the Windows SharePoint Services native adapter included in BizTalk 2006 (see SeptemberWSSAdapterWebcast). The "BTS 2006 Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Adapter Deep Dive" webcast is now available on the Microsoft Beta Place http://beta.microsoft.com/ , Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006, under the Additional File Downloads section.If you haven't signed-up already in the BizTalk 2006 Beta program, then go to bts2006beta to see the instructions.[Imag...(truncated)...
WSS, POP3, SMTP adapters webcasts
(Indexed 2005-09-07):
I will be holding a WSS Adapter Deep Dive webcast on September 14. Before that, on September 8, Erik Leaseburg will hold a POP3 and SMTP adapters webcast.See below anouncement from Doug Girard forwarded to BizTalk Beta testers.Beta testers,You're all invited to a webcast this Thursday courtesy of the Technology Adoption Programs team and Erik Leaseburg. Here are the details:BizTalk Server 2006 Adapters, with a focus on POP3 and SMTP (Erik Leaseburg)September 8, 2005 8:00 AM PDT WEBCAST: https:/...(truncated)...
Microsoft rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications for Windows SharePoint Services
(Indexed 2005-08-05):
Microsoft rolled out 30 free, downloadable applications that build on top of the company's SharePoint Services collaboration/workflow technology that is built into Windows Server.Among the plethora new applications are horizontal and vertical applets both. Schedule-management, consumer-financing, employee-training, event-management, travel-request, classroom-management, campaign-management and other similar types of offerings are available immediately. See full article here http://www.microsoft-...(truncated)...
My Wss Adapter blog/tools To Do list
(Indexed 2005-07-29):
Here are some of the things that I am would like to cover in this blog in the future. These are just some of the ideas that I have, I do not guarantee that I will get to all of them, or any of them for that matter, but I'll do my best to get to at least some of them.1 - Complete Wss Adapter tutorials 1 through 3 - I will complete the tutorials and I will comment each of the steps explaining why each particular step is needed. Normally, this info should be already in the tutorial, but since this ...(truncated)...
Wss Adapter questions
(Indexed 2005-07-29):
These are some of the questions raised by early users of the WSS adapter. I assumed that people didn't want to see their names listed here, so I took the liberty and removed all the names and also rephrased some of the questions.Q: What are the differences between the WSS adapter in 2006 which is available out of the box, and the WSS adapter for 2004 which could be downloaded from gotdotnet?A: See my previous blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/ahamza/archive/2005/07/27/443823.aspx At some point I ...(truncated)...
BizTalk 2006 Beta 1 - Download, setup, configuration
(Indexed 2005-07-29):
This Tuesday I have subscribed to the Microsoft BizTalk 2006 Beta program and today (Thursday) I have finally received the email with the approval allowing me to download and play with the bits. In this post I will walk you through my experience downloading the bits, running setup and configuration for Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and BizTalk 2006 Beta 1 in order to play with the native WSS Adapter. This post will focus on a single machine deployment scenario but I will also point out separa...(truncated)...
BizTalk 2006 native WSS Adapter vs GotDotNet WSS Adapter - Features Overview
(Indexed 2005-07-27):
BizTalk 2006 native adapter for Windows SharePoint Services versus GotDotNet Windows SharePoint Services adapter, which one should you use? In my previous post, I have mentioned the shared source WSS Adapter available on GotDotNet and the fact that Microsoft has included a similar adapter in BizTalk 2006. So which one should you use? Well.the BizTalk native adapter if you ask me. But if you want to decide for yourself then look at the table below that compares the two adapters. I highlighted th...(truncated)...
BizTalk 2006 Beta1 has been released
(Indexed 2005-07-26):
Well folks, its here no, not my blog ... BizTalk 2006 Beta1 has been released (see http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/evaluation/bts2006beta.mspx ) and soon we should hear the verdict from the customers.I have been working at Microsoft for the last 5 years (almost), the last 3.5 years as a developer on BizTalk. I was part of the team that shipped BizTalk 2004 and I really liked the product, especially the design and the flexibility that came with it. That being said, BizTalk 2006 is going to be s...(truncated)...